Quote #48

"When you make a mistake, there are only three things you
should ever do about it: admit it, learn from it, and do not
repeat it."

-- Paul "Bear" Bryant

2010 Holiday Greeting - Jonathan Horton

2010 Holiday Greeting - Rebecca Bross

2010 Holiday Greeting - Alicia Sacramone

2010 USA Gymnastics: An Amazing Year

Quote #47

The will to win is important, but the will to prepare is vital.
-Joe Paterno

Quote #46

It's lack of faith that makes people afraid of meeting challenges, and I believed in myself.
-Muhammad Ali

Quote #45

Even if you are on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.
-Will Rogers

Quote #44

Other people may not have had high expectations for me... but I had high expectations for myself.
-Shannon Miller

Merry Christmas and a happy competition year!

Well today is Christmas here in the United States and I just wanted to send a shout out to everyone who reads my blog an say MERRY CHRISTMAS! especially my out of country viewers. Thanks so much for making my blog as big as it is. I also want to thank my Coaches Jill, Lance, and Steph for getting me where I am today. I love you guys! Also, Comp season starts VERY soon so good luck to my competitors and have a HAPPY HOLIDAYS!
-Whitney

Quote #43

If you train hard, you'll not only be hard, you'll be hard to beat.
-Herschel Walker

Quote #42

The difference between the impossible and the possible lies in a mans determination
-Tommy Lasorda

Quote #41

You have no control over what the other guy does. You only have control over what you do.
-A J Kitt

Quote #40

The day you take complete responsibility for yourself, the day you stop making any excuses, thats the day you start to the top.
-O.J. Simpson

Quote #39

"You can take from every experience what it has to offer you.
And you cannot be defeated if you just keep taking one breath
followed by another."

-- Oprah Winfrey

quote #38

"When the water starts boiling it is foolish to turn off the
heat."

-- Nelson Mandela

or in other words when you are at the peak of your mountain it doesn't mean you have to fall to the bottom.

Quote #37

"People are always blaming their circumstances for what they
are. I don't believe in circumstances. The people who get on
in this world are the people who get up and look for the
circumstances they want, and, if they can't find them, they
make them."

-- George Bernard Shaw

quote #36

"This is as true in everyday life as it is in battle: we are
given one life and the decision is ours whether to wait for
circumstances to make up our mind, or whether to act, and in
acting, to live."

-- Omar Bradley

quote #35

"Good, better, best. Never rest until good be better and
better best."

-- Mother Goose rhyme

That goose is quite smart. :)

quote #34

"What I am looking for is not out there, it is in me."

-- Helen Keller

Make and effort

Make and effort, Not and excuse.

With excuses you will go nowhere with effort you will go everywhere.

Quote #33

"Every situation, every moment -- is of infinite worth; for it
is the representative of a whole eternity."

-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Look at every Olympic champion. Their life was changed the second they won that gold medal. They will be known for that moment for ever. So every moment towards what you want out of life. Believe in yourself and do your best because you never know what moments will change your life.

January is right around the corner

Competition season is right around the corner so now is the time to push yourself to perfection. Before we know it it will be January, the beginning of Utah Gymnastics (GO UTES!), Competitions, and the push to the US National Championships. My meets start the second week of January with an in-house meet then at the end of January we start our "big meets." good luck to my team and all of the competitors this upcoming year no madder your sport. So remember to have fun during the holidays and  may the odds be ever in your favor!
-Whitney